Next, we opted for another old game, which Nige and Ben had forgotten they'd played before, although Mark was able to show them the score sheet from their previous game. This is a pretty simple race game which has at its core the concept of slipstreaming - which for a cycling game is fairly apt. Players play cards to move forwards but if they land on the same square as another bike, they are bumped forward the same number of squares as the card originally played. If there is more than one bike on the square you bump even further forward. As the number of points in your hand of cards isn't enough to get you round the circuit, you can see it is pretty important to keep being bumped forward. And if you lose touch with the rest of the bikes, it's curtains.

In our game Nige benefitted from a huge bump early on, allowing him to take the first stage sprint points easily. However, he then had no-one to bounce off until we caught up, which we did do by about half way round. It was at this stage, my critical problem arose. I was already languishing near the back, but ended up with no card that allowed me to bounce off anyone, and I watched as the rest tore off into the distance. Luckily, I did manage to catch them pedalling fast and using all my high cards, but I was then left with nothing left to benefit. In the end John picked up the most points, allowing him to claim the win, while I finished with negative points, not having picked up any sprint points and languishing at the back of the field at the end. Still, it was pretty good fun and didn't last too long.